Knowledge of species richness is important for establishing priorities in conservation planning and management. Patterns of species richness in four exceptionally species-rich palnt communities and correlations between species richness patterns, physical habitat, and historical biogeographic factors are examined here. I conclude that several of the apparently conflicting hypotheses for the maintenance of species richness in plant communities are reconcilable under different ecological circumstances
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Ashton, P. S. (1992). Species Richness in Plant Communities. In Conservation Biology (pp. 3–22). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6426-9_1
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